•
Older adults serving as mentors of children and youth who
need guidance and encouragement; or as extended-family to foster
and adoptive children and their parents such as in the Experience
Corps and Across
Ages programs that are being replicated throughout
the nation.
•
Mobilizing
retirees from trade unions such as the project organized by The
Work Connection in Massachusetts where school
drop-outs and youthful offenders are matched with retired union
workers who help them locate and keep jobs in the trades.
•
Creating
affordable housing communities, such as Hope
Meadows in Illinois, where older adults are matched
with children in the foster care system, or Grandfamilies
in Massachusetts which is being replicated throughout
the country.
•
Establishing
a Homeshare program
that helps older people remain in their homes while providing
housing for a member of the younger generation who helps an elder
with needed companionship and assistance.
•
Publishing
books of life stories, and cultural traditions of people
of all ages such as within Project
WRITE at Temple University.
•
Creating a
program such as Project SHINE (Students
Helping in the Naturalization of Elders) at Temple
University that mobilizes college students to help elderly immigrants
and refugees learn English and prepare to become U.S. citizens.
•
Establishing
a service learning program that connects high school students
with homebound elders to provide companionship and telephone reassurance
such as Telefriends in Delaware
County, Pennsylvania.
•
Matching Spanish-speaking
older adults with pregnant and parenting Latina teens such as
within Abuelas y Jovenes in Philadelphia.
